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Eubena Nampitjin
Kinyu, 2003

Kinyu

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Etching and aquatint, printed in orange and burgundy ink, from one plate.
Edition: 23/25
77 × 53.5cm (sheet)
Published by Warlayirti Artists.
 

Eubena Nampitjin has depicted some of her traditional country located south west of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is found along the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route, around Well 35. The majority of this print depicts the talis, (sand dunes) which dominate the landscape of the area. The central circle is Kinyu waniri (rockhole) which is where Kinyu the spirit dog lives. Nampitjin recalled how she would present gifts of goanna to Kinyu whenever she approached this waniri.

 
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Eubena Nampitjin was born in Tjinndjaldpa, south of Jupiter Well in the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia. This area, on the Canning Stock Route and over 350 kilometres inland from Port Hedland, is one of the most remote places in Australia. Nampitjin had little contact with non-Indigenous Australians until the late 1940s, when she travelled to Old Mission with her children and first husband. She moved with the mission in 1963 to its present site at Balgo, or Wirrimanu as it is traditionally known. Nampitjin was an elder of the Wangkajunga people, a custodian of women’s law. While at the mission, she regularly returned to live in her country for extended periods. Nampitjin was awarded the Open Painting prize in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 1998.

 
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